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Why is Date in menu bar a "new" feature in Snow Leopard 10.6? This was one of the first things i changed when i got my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5 back in December 2007. System Preferences… > International > Formats > Time / Customize… Show: Medium How To Make It Work The trick is to copy the Month [ READ MORE ]
Screengrab script for Ubiquity is the easiest way to capture screenshots of entire web pages in Firefox[ READ MORE ]
Ironically, WordPress’ Texturize filter chokes when the phrase “web 2.0″ is quoted. Texturize automatically makes semantically-correct curly quotes and other punctuational fixes to regularly typed text. Normally that’s great for people like me who care about stuff like that. But when a quoted phrase ends in a number, it turns the closing [ READ MORE ]
I’m giving AIM Lite another try. Since i last used it they’ve added profile support, saved away messages, and a few other things. Still no ads, and still light on memory. Ditch your old-school AIM and go for AIM Lite, unless you can’t live without your hot-pink fonts and smilies and crap. [ READ MORE ]
Well after a serious hiatus, i’m back on AIM. I was partly sick of the AIM client bloat and hacks to get it to do what i wanted, but mainly because it just stopped connecting and i didn’t feel like trying to fix it. I still had Google Talk. But then i found AOL’s [ READ MORE ]